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Table of Contents
Chapter One
What's New for Opus 5.5 .........................1
Highlights of Directory Opus 5.5 ................2
Chapter Two
Introduction and Overview .......................5
Workbench Replacement ...........................6
Multitasking as it should be done! ..............6
No Waiting, No Delay ............................6
Superfluous Glitz ...............................7
The Opus 5 Visual Display Objects ...............8
The Main Window .................................9
File Listers ....................................9
Lister Display Modes ............................10
Custom Button Banks .............................11
User Defined Menus ..............................12
Scripts .........................................13
Hot Keys ........................................13
Extended Power ..................................13
Configurations Settings .........................13
Special Paths ...................................14
Automatic Recognition of Files ..................14
Drag and Drop! ..................................15
Pop-up Menus ....................................15
Built-in FTP Support ............................16
Chapter Three
Introduction to File Management .................17
Files and Directories ...........................17
Files ...........................................18
Directories .....................................18
Chapter Four
Installing Directory Opus 5 .....................21
Technical Details of Installation ...............22
Installation Options ............................24
Serialising Directory Opus 5 ....................25
Running Directory Opus 5 ........................26
Workbench Replacement (WBR) .................26
Potential Problems with WBR mode ............27
Automatic Startup on Boot ...................28
Starting From Workbench .........................28
Starting From the CLI ...........................28
Tool Types, Command Line Arguments .............29
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Chapter Five
Using Directory Opus 5 ..........................31
Aborting Operations .............................31
Opus Context Sensitive Help .....................32
Directory Opus 5 Components .....................33
The Opus 5 Main Window ..........................33
Program Application Icons .......................34
Selecting Icons .............................34
Leaving Out Icons ...........................34
Icon Pop-up Menus ...............................35
Program Groups ..................................35
Menus ...........................................36
The Opus 5 File Listers .........................37
Lister - Name Mode Display ......................38
Title Bar ...................................38
Status Bar ..................................38
Lister Pop-up Menus .........................41
Filetype Pop-up Menus .......................42
Position, Display Format and Sort Order .....43
Editing Display and Sort Order ..............43
Dynamic Resorting ...........................45
Special Formats for defined Directories .....45
Field Titles ................................46
Toolbar .....................................46
Directory Path ..............................46
Hidden Parent Button ........................47
Lister - Icon Mode Display ......................47
Lister - Icon Action Mode Display ...............48
Using the Listers ...............................49
Using a Mouse with a Lister .................50
Moving Around ...............................50
Selecting Files and Directories .............50
Drag and Drop ...............................51
Directories .................................51
Double Click Power! .........................52
Name Mode - Double-Click ....................52
Name Mode - SHIFT double-click ..............53
Icon or Icon Action mode - Double-Click .....53
Clipboard Cut and Paste .....................53
Using the Keyboard with a Lister ................54
Quick Access to a File Name in Name Mode ....55
Extended Key Selection Gadget ...............55
Converting Directory Opus 4 Configuration Files .56
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Chapter Six
The Global Main Menus ...........................57
The Opus Menu ...................................58
The Lister Menu .................................60
The Icons Menu ..................................63
The Buttons Menu ................................67
The Settings Menu ...............................68
The Default User Menus ..........................72
Chapter Seven
The Environment Editor ..........................73
Desktop .........................................73
Display Mode ....................................74
Display Options .................................76
Lister Display ..................................77
Lister Options ..................................79
Output Window ...................................80
Palette .........................................81
User Pens ...................................82
Problems with Screen Modes and User Pens ....82
Chapter Eight
The Options Editor ..............................85
Caching .........................................85
Copy ............................................86
Delete ..........................................86
Hide Method .....................................87
Icons ...........................................89
Miscellaneous ...................................90
Priority ........................................91
Repalce .........................................92
Obsolete Options - Options/Path Formats .........93
Chapter Nine
Commands and Custom Buttons .....................95
Scope and Focus of Buttons ......................96
Special buttons Menu ............................96
Internal Opus 5 Commands ........................97
Directory Opus 5 ix
Chapter Ten
The Hotkey Editor ...............................129
The HotKey Editor Menu ..........................130
Chapter Eleven
The Scripts Editor ..............................133
The Editor ......................................134
The Script Editor Menus .........................136
Sample Scripts ..................................137
Chapter Twelve
Filetypes .......................................139
Predefined Filetypes ............................139
Filetype Manager ................................140
Editing Filetypes ...............................141
Events ......................................141
Mouse Events ................................142
Command Events - User 1-4 ...................143
Icon and Filetype Menus .........................143
Default Icon and Select Icon ................143
Edit Class ..................................144
Definition of a Filetype ....................144
Editing the Filetype Definition .............145
Edit Commands ...............................146
Testing Directives ..........................146
Movement Directives .........................149
Extra Examples ..............................151
The Automatic Filetype Creator ..................152
Chapter Thirteen
The Opus Editors ................................157
The Function Editor .............................157
Argument Variables {} .......................163
Optional Arguments ..........................168
The Button Editor ...............................171
The Menu Editor .................................174
The Button Bank Editor ..........................178
Editing the Lister ToolBar ..................182
Chapter Fourteen
Opus 5 Utility Requesters
The Diskcopy Requester ..........................185
The Format Requester ............................187
The Print Requester .............................189
The Opus 5 Viewer ...............................192
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Chapter Fifteen
The OpusFTP Module ..............................195
The FTP Configuration File ......................196
Opus 5 FTP Commands .............................200
Trapped Commands ............................200
System Commands .............................201
Transfer Commands 203
Chapter Sixteen
ARexx ...........................................205
ARexx Commands ..................................206
dopus .......................................206
lister ......................................213
command .....................................239
ARexx Error Codes ...............................239
Custom Handlers .................................241
Custom Handlers for Listers .................241
Trapped Functions ...........................245
AddStem Pop-Ups .............................245
Custom Handlers for AppIcons ................246
ARexx Modules ...................................248
Appendix
Appendix ........................................251
Opus 5.5 Environment Variables ..................251
View Font .......................................252
Compatibility ...................................253
Index
Index ...........................................255
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